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Background

A two-day IDO workshop for invited participants will be held on December 8-9, 2010. Venue: Baltimore Airport Hilton. This meeting is being organized as part of the series of Dissemination Workshops organized under the auspices of the National Center for
Biomedical Ontology (NCBO).

The Infectious Disease Ontology (IDO) is a general terminology, taxonomy, and logical representation of entities relevant to all
infectious diseases. IDO is already being applied through disease-specific IDO extensions to the study of seven diseases,
including diseases of bacterial, viral, and eukaryotic origin.

Recently, the IDO has been adopted by the virus and bacterial Bioinformatics Resource Centers (BRCs) established by the NIAID to
serve integration of a broad array of -omics, epidemiological and clinical data.

Goals of the Meeting

The primary goal of this meeting is to explore the potential benefits of using the IDO Infectious Disease Ontology as a controlled vocabulary for promoting consistency in the ways infectious disease data are described. IDO provides both a vocabulary of terms and a set of precise definitions that have been thoroughly reviewed for biological accuracy and logical consistency.

We will explore the benefits of the IDO controlled vocabulary, especially in advancing the work of the Bioinformatics Resource Centers, in areas such as:

clinical data integration

text and data mining

genetic susceptibility to infectious disease

disease surveillance

plant infectious disease

The meeting will also address relations between IDO and other parallel initiatives, including PRIME, DebugIT, and the various IDO extension ontologies.

To address these goals, speakers are asked to address the following points

The goals of their project

biological questions for research projects

content and functions for computational resource projects

The tasks for which terminologies are needed

The terminologies currently being using

brief description of any terminologies developed specifically for the project

description of the ways in which current terminologies are inadequate for the project’s needs

Schedule

Tuesday, December 7

7:00pm Dinner (Dutch treat, venue to be announced)

Day 1: Wednesday, December 8

8:30am Registration & Continental Breakfast

9:00am Introduction: The current state of IDO and its role as a controlled vocabulary for infectious disease research - Lindsay Cowell and Barry Smith